Samuel Wescott

Samuel Wescott was Mayor of Jersey City from 4 May 1857 to 2 May 1858, succeeding David Stout Manners and preceding Dudley S. Gregory.

Biography
Samuel Wescott was a Democratic politician, and he served as Mayor of Jersey City from 1857 to 1858 before incorporating an insurance company in 1860 with Dudley S. Gregory (his successor as Mayor), John Van Vorst (from the notable Van Vorst family, for whom Van Vorst Park is named), Edmund Kingsland, Garret Sip (whose family is the namesake of Sip Avenue), John M. Cornelison, Hery F. Cox, Peter Bentley, Augustus A. Hardenburgh, and Jonathan D. Miller, and he served in the State Senate from 1860 to 1862.